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47: Delphinios
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Rite of Power 48: Prisoner
For once, Nathan had impeccable timing. He showed up just as Isabel started talking about wanting to set up a series of tests to prove a hunch she had. Blake and Kelly had already agreed to stay overnight for observation, and I had no intention of joining them. Sophie stayed behind, to keep Kelly company and compare notes on what it was like to share a body with one of the Menae, while the rest of us headed off to deal with Candice. We stood as a group, outside of her cell, while Dr Martinez gave Candice a quick examination to make sure that she was healthy enough to be moved without needing any medical attention. I would never know if Isabel was just really fast, too distracted by Kelly’s situation, or if I’d actually put enough thought into her care to keep her healthy, because it didn’t take long for Isabel to join us and report that she didn’t need any further medical care. Dmitri grabbed my wrist and pulled me against him as I tried to enter the l
Rite of Power 49: Empath
While the energy wasn’t nearly as bad as when I’d brought Bo over from the Aether, I still felt sluggish and drained in the morning. Part of that could’ve been attributed to the fact that I’d only closed my eyes a few hours ago. As promised, Dmitri hadn’t cared what time it was when we found ourselves alone together. Not that I was complaining. I couldn’t even pretend to be upset that he’d let me sleep through my normal training routine. Both of the people who I trained with had had full days themselves and probably needed the morning off just as much as I had. The thought reminded me that Kelly had spent the whole night in the hospital instead of her own comfortable bed. I nudged Dmitri awake and forced myself to move through our suite to get ready for the day. If Isabel hadn’t already checked on Kelly I could knock that out and make a quick visit to my aunt before breakfast. With Nathan back, I could let him deal with Candice and just fill me in on t
Rite of Power 50: Xandikos
Dmitri came to find me long after I’d sent Blake and Kelly away to start their respite. “I thought you would’ve come to join me so we could join everyone at breakfast together,” he watched me from where he leaned against the doorframe. “I told Caleb and Jeanette that you were personally seeing to some discomfort Kelly was having, and Sophie explained that it was just Braxton hick’s contractions but you wanted to make sure Kelly was fine all the same.” “I’m sorry,” I tucked my hands in my lap to keep from chewing on my nails. “I didn’t realize it was so late.” “It’s not like you to lose track of time like that,” his brow creased with concern. “Were you aware that my aunt and probably my uncle knew the truth about me?” “How could they?” he pushed himself up straight and made his way towards me. “You didn’t even know the truth, how could they have known?” “Add it to the list of questions I want answers to
Rite of Power 51: Kalliope
‘It’s time to wake up now,’ an unfamiliar woman’s voice called from far away. The voice faded away into the dark nothing that enclosed me as my own personal hell reset itself. There was no escaping this cycle of pain and misery. I’d built this prison brick by brick through the years and now it was all I had left. I felt the cold and wet pour down on me through the darkness. Here we go again… “You’re fucking sister led him right to us!” Giorgos had never been so angry with me before. “I have to find Daciana! She’s with the cubs!” He growled at me in frustration. It was the first time I’d ever been afraid of my mate, but it wouldn’t be the last time after today. His hand crushed mine painfully as he pulled me, half dragging me through the rain back towards the pack house. I knew it was our own cub that made him turn back. I collapsed on to the floor as soon as he released his grip. “I’ll search through the rooms upstairs
Rite of Power 52: Final Judgement
‘I’ve watched you go thru this five times,’ there was that voice again, closer this time. ‘I’m not going to watch it again. It’s time to for you to wake up and face the consequences of your actions.’ The rain froze in midair; all the screaming and sounds of battle fell silent around me. Even Giorgos was frozen in time; inches from snatching me up off the ground. I looked around, “Who’s there?” A large black wolf with a bright white patch of fur on the forehead in the shape of a starburst weaved their way between the people frozen in their horrific death scenes and padded towards me. ‘Why did you’re wolf abandon you here to torment yourself?’ “My wolf?” Who was this strange she-wolf to come into my personal hell and question it? “I gave up my wolf before any of this to be a Luna to my mate. It was the price I paid to leave The Vὅlsung, packs cannot have two Alphas.” Her fur rippled as she laughed, ‘Your mate was a cowar
Rite of Power 53: Phase
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Rite of Power 54: Challenge Accepted
“This is all very exciting,” Jeanette beamed a big smile at me, “It’s very rare for someone to challenge an alpha at all these days, but for a female alpha such as yourself it has to be even more rare,” she took a deep breath. “It’s like we’re getting a front row seat to history, isn’t it?” Caleb nodded at her with a big smile of his own. “Thanks, I think,” I tried to smile back at her, but I’d never addressed the whole pack all at once before, in fact this was going to be the first time many of them were included in a link at all. If I could pull this off, it might be enough to distract Caleb from this morning, and it would be a big step towards the changes I wanted to see in our pack. “Just breath through it, and don’t let them overwhelm you,” Dmitri, stroked the small of my back to try and calm my nerves. “I’ll be right here with you through the whole thing.” The fact that he was encouraging my plan to unlock the link to all the pack members who cou
Rite of Power 55: Calm Before the Storm
We had drastically underestimated the chaos that would ensue from allowing every single member of the pack to access the link. We had to set up several different workshop type classes around the pack’s territory to help people understand how to use the link properly and directly with one another instead of the main pack link, which was a clusterfuck of noise to anyone that left themselves open to it. Some people couldn’t get out of it on their own. Sophie had to take over most of my daily tasks to free me up to handle that last group. Dmitri had once warned me against using sway to often or on too large of a scale because it could be draining, but I seemed to have a bottomless reserve of energy in that department. The exhausting part for me was walking someone step by step through the ability to access the link without broadcasting to everyone all at once. Dmitri had to hold open an active link between him and the higher ranking members just to get any
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